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Table of Content - Volume 3 Issue 3- September 2016
A study of treatment outcomes of sputum smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis re-treatment cases at tertiary health care center
Deepak Onkar Patil1, Sanjay Dattu Mahajan2*
1Professor, 2Associate Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Dr. Ulhas Patil Medical College and Hospital, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, INDIA.
Email: drdopatil@gmail.com
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